Useful statistics
You may find it useful to use some provoking facts in your marketing material or client discussions. Whilst such shock tactics can prove effective, always be at pains to point out that products and services from Aviva can help with both the cause and effect of such conditions.
Please remember to source each fact clearly. This information is provided in good faith but you should always check that more recent information has not become available.
Absence Management Statistics
Research calculates that sickness absence cost UK businesses £13.4 billion in 2006.
Source: CBI/AXA Absence and Labour Turnover Survey 2007
2.2 million people of working age will be off work for at least six months at any one time through sickness and disability.
Source: www.cover-mag.co.uk/ COVER - Benefits rates facts and figures August 2008
On average sickness costs employers £659 per employee every year.
Source: www cipd/co.uk/surveys CIPD 2007 - Absence Management, Survey report. London
In 2006, 30 million working days were in the UK to occupational ill health and injury, imposing an annual cost to society of £30bn (more the 3% of Gross Domestic Product of the UK).
Source: www.hse.gov.uk/leadership/benefits.htm. Reproduced under the terms of the OPSI Click-use licence.
Every year over 200 people are killed at work in the UK.
Source: www.hse.gov.uk/leadership/benefits.htm. Reproduced under the terms of the OPSI Click-use licence.
Many thousands of deaths each year can be attributed to occupational illness, including some cancers and respiratory diseases.
Source: www.hse.gov.uk/leadership/benefits.htm. Reproduced under the terms of the OPSI Click-use licence.
Stress Statistics
Estimates from SWI06/07 indicate that self-reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety account for an estimated 13.8 million reported lost working days per year in Britain.
Source: www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causdis/stress/index.htm
The 2006/07 survey of Self-reported Work-related Illness (SWI06/07) prevalence estimate indicated that around 530 000 individuals in Britain believed in 2006/07 that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill.
Source: www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causdis/stress/index.htm